Definitely, although I still hear JB's pre-1970 grooves as being more "proto-funk." For me, it was Sly Stone who took JB's approach and turned it into the deeper grooves that we think of as funk today. And that was more like 1968-70. This was all happening at the same time as jazz was starting to go electric. What an amazing period. There weren't any rules and no one was arguing about music industry semantics.
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